Synergy and it’s maintenance fork Synergy+ both have or had issues with translating some keys with non-US keyboard layouts. In my case I could not type curly or square braces using the AltGR+7, 8, 9 or 0 combinations. The @, € and µ were working fine, but I kept blaming Synergy.
Only later, after well over [...]

In general you just need to set the HTTP_PROXY environment variable to make easy_install work through a proxy. With Linux you do the using the “export” command and add it to you .bashrc or something. On Windows you can either use the “set” command every time or set the variable permanently in Control Panel – [...]

This is again an older article — from 2006 this time and it may or may not be true today!
How to make Adobe Acrobat work with TeXnicCenter via DDE?

Edit the three commands on the “viewer” tab in the output profiles window.
[DocOpen("%bm.pdf")][FileOpen("%bm.pdf")]
[DocOpen("%bm.pdf")][FileOpen("%bm.pdf")]
[DocClose("%bm.pdf")]
Set each server to “acroview” and “control” as topic.
Tips for working with indices
Use this to [...]

Usually there are two types of admins: the *nix guys and the Microsoft guys. There is a way to make the transition from *nix to Windows systems or working on both easier, by installing “Utilities and SDK for UNIX-based Applications“.
This 180MB download installs things like ls, grep, vi, tail, head, wc, bc, tftp, sort, uniq, [...]